see ya ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, governor mike huckabee. [cheers and applause] >> mike: hello, everybody. welcome. welcome to huckabee from the fox news studios in new york city. tonight, we're going to revisit the family behind a touching hollywood hit called the blind side. and, the woman who inspired an academy award winning performance by sandra bullock. new technology, including apple's new ipad. well, it's supposed to make life easier. but have you often had trouble even turk your new gadget on? our own clayton morris joins us with an easy to follow, how-to guide on the latest gadgets and gizmos from the tech world. also, hooter's cbo kobe brooks

tell us about his real wakeup call when he went undercover on the front lines of his own company on the new tv hit show undercover boss. ken of americans for fair taxation is here with a plan that would spare you from even having to file a tax return. and it would give you control of how much you pay in taxes. then, peter noon of her man's her mitts performs one of the biggest hits with the rockers. welcome to tonight's show. [ applause ] this year as it is every year, jews observe the passover and those of us who are christians celebrate easter sunday. now, i fully understand that not all my viewers believe as i do. but even if spiritual things aren't your thing, you surely can recognize and respect that for many of us, this is a special time. my jewish friends observing the passover remember that when things looked darkest, and most dismal, for the jews, god

provided a way for his people to not only survive but to miraculously thrive. he brought deliverance when they appeared to face certain death. now for those of house are christian, easter reminds us that defeat, discouragement, even death are not the final chapters of the story. easter is the reminder that as christ rose from the grave and overcame death itself, so we, too, can face all the obstacles in our path and live beyond the grizzly grave of our pains, sorrow, and failure a god whose power is limited to feeling sorry for us as we spiral to our death would be a god i could do without. but we worship one who promises to do far more than accompany us to our demise but rather to usher us to everlasting life. easter reminds me that there is no limit to god's ability to overcome my limits. he doesn't just hold my hand as i die, he takes me by the hand and he gives me life and through him i overcome our nation right

now, it's going through some tough times. and, granted, there are many voices of gloom and doom, death and despair. hey, don't count me among them. i'm not naive to the hurdles. but i am more mindful of god's power to overcome. and i figure if he can bring a dead man from the tomb and deliver a nation from destruction which didn't even have a military weapon at its disposal, then surely he can bring our nation back to life. to slightly misquote a famous and recent president, yes, he can. and that's where my hope is. not in yes, we can. but, yes, he can. for me, that's what easter really means. [ applause ] >> mike: that's my view. i welcome yours. can you contact me at mike huckabee.com and click on the fox news feedback section. well,son dra bullock is going through some tough times in her personal life. but less than a month ago, the actress was on top of the world. she won the oscar for best

actress for her betrayal of leigh anne tuohy in the movie the blind side. >> do you have any place to stay tonight? don't you dare lie to me. >> i have seen that look many times. she is about to get her way. >> come on. come on. >> make room. get inside. come on. >> mike: the family that inspired bullock's award winning performance and the blockbuster hit leann, sean, collins, and sean tuohy jr. join me about the time the movie was released. leann, that scene that sandra bullock is seeing michael oher

out there walking around in the rain on the cold night, did it happen like that? >> almost. there was a few artistic liberties taken in that scene. we actually did pick michael up on a cold evening and but it was not to go straight to our house that night. we picked him up, and he had come out to the school to go to the gym where there was some heat and we gave him a ride back to a bus stop to get him home a little bit quicker than taking a bus that would, you know, stopped at eight or nine his guyi tou yes. >> something touched you. se of you saw it guy out there walking on the side of the street. what happened inside of you when you saw this great bigea y out there walking around by himself? >> i think it is just mother's in tuition.s kind of just something that was kind ot nagging at you that said turn around. that those three words have been pretty impactful in my life lately. er grateund.

i think those three words have been impactful and i'm forevers grateful that we did. he is a fine young man thatt wa changed our lives. >> that was one of the more powerful moments the scene ingu which your friends were he depictinged assaying you changed this young man's life and you said no, he changed guy mine. michael into the tuohy family, were you just kind of used to leann doing things like this? >> yeah. >> mike: was that sort of the way you were expected to accept? okay, leann has an idea here? >> talking about it is a little bit of a stretch. i mean, she tells us about it. [ laughter ] >> mike: no? >> yef. truth is, epiphany moment. hardest question to answer, when did you decide? heck, we don't remember. because it was -- we kind of joke about it we said well, it was tuesday because it was the day after monday, the day before wednesday. and all kind of came together. and all of a sudden we were in the middle of it and then it's eight years later and u you

know, is he in baltimore and we are in memphis. i don't know that there was this big sit-down thing. but, you know, there obviously had to be a conscious decision that you know, is this good or bad. but there never was one openly. and she is not really -- we vote, you know, sean jr. and i and collin has 49 and a.5%. we voted all the time. we never seem to win. >> mike: i know how that works. i'm married to a southern woman myself. >> exactly. >> mike: collins, i wanted to ask you, you and micah call were the same age. >> yes, sir. >> mike: you went to school with him. your when your mom said we are going to invite him home. how what was your reaction to this experience. >> it didn't go exactly like this. it wasn't a big sitdown moment that they made it out to be it was really gradual. michael and i had spent a lot of time with each other before him being a part of the family was an option. i cheered he played football. i did track and he did as well. we were already ache claim mated

to knowing each other before the big push to move in happened. >> mike: were there friends of yours that thought that your family was crazy? >> i'm sure there was. they weren't vocal about it. >> mike: they never said anything. >> no. my friends never. may have been for fear michael, you know, would kill them. [ laughter ] but, no. my friends are very open to michael. you know, when i look back on it now, that question is asked a lot. when i look back on it, they were very sweet to him and we all got a along really well. his friends were always welcome at our house because our house is his home. my friends were the same. we all got along really well. >> mike: s.j., i want to ask you, are you as entrepreneurial as you are portrayed to be. i see you as ceo of one of the top companies in america some day and not very long from now. >> well, jay did a pretty good job. and -- i like to tell myself that, i guess. i think jay might have pulled myself off better than myself.

>> mike: that would be cool having big brother comes in keep an eye on you and watch after you. >> yes. kind of like one of those things where i never had that. it was just there. it was really more -- he was a friend than a brother for a long time. i started introducing mike as my big brother before he was my big brother, you know. yeah, it was something that -- i guess i didn't really grow up without mike. >> he was like 7 or 8 years old. he worked us coaches pretty hard. >> don't let him tell you that. >> he worked us really hard. >> i think it was, you know, the second or third trip that coaches made before michael ever actually said anything to them because sean jr. handled the pro-parole process. >> it got to be known through the end of the recruiting process is jay going to be home tonight? they knew nothing was going to happen unless s.j. was in the house. >> mike: he was going to work them hard.

where did he get that. >> that was from his dad. >> mike: i think he got that from both of you just from the time i have been around you. we are going to keep talking. there is some things we have got to talk about and how this incredittible experience happened. we will be back with the tuohys right after this. stay with us. [cheers and applause] gecko: uh, you wanted to see me sir? boss: come on in, i had some other things you can tell people about geico - great claims service and a 97% customer satisfaction rate. show people really trust us. gecko: yeah right, that makes sense. boss: trust is key when talking about geico. you gotta feel it. why don't you and i practice that with a little exercise where i fall backwards and you catch me. gecko: uh no sir, honestly... uh...i don't think...uh... boss: no, no. we can do this. gecko: oh dear. vo: geico. fifteen minutes could save you 15% or more on car insurance.

>> mike: we are back with the tuohys, i wanted to, again, leann, one of the things that i think i loved about this movie, it is so refreshing to see hollywood present a church-going god-fearing family in a positive light. you don't see it that often. [ applause ] >> mike: were you surprised that you were depicted as people that were authentic and is that you? tell me about who leigh anne tuohy is. what motivates you inside? >> i think that john lee hancock spent an inordinate amount of time around our family. i think that he knew the puls, the heart beat. i didn't have to tell him who i

was. which is nice. because i think that he just figured it out on his own. and that was good for me because he watched what we did, what we said, what we interacted with each other, how we interacted with our friends, went to church with us. you know, knew the kind of church that we went to. and so all of that, i think, just came together and made this movie, you know, what it was. and, yeah, i think that's who i am, sandy did a good job with that that was one of the things that scared her about taking on this role is the christian aspect of it. and she really did a great job. we, in our family, kind of believed that your walk is a little more important than your talk. you know, words are easy to say. >> mike: i wish more people thought of that, leann, i really do. [cheers and applause] >> lip service is easy. you know, anyone can provide you with lip service. it takes seeing someone live their life the way that we think

that we should live our life. we are certainly not going to judge anyone else, just each other. and to us, and what we try to tell our kids is that, you know, your walk is much more important. you know. >> mike: sean, the faith obviously played an important role and the compassion that you had for michael when you first began to know him and invited him into your home, did you ever think about gosh, what if there is a risk involved here in the vulnerabilities? was that ever a part of? >> he brought so much to us so quickly that we just wanted more of it. and then, you know, the more you got to know him, first of all it, took about an hour to fall in love with him. everyone does. that's not just us. we were the lucky ones, you know. i tell everybody and i really do mean it that he was a great kid when he came to our house. we just didn't screw him up. that was always in play. [ laughter ] so, you know, he really gets most of the credit. you know, i think that, first of all, you know, you want to see people depicted with their

flaws. and in our family, that's not hard to do. so john lee was easy about, well, gosh, this really is a real family, look how much they screw up, you know. so i think that attracted sandra bullock probably to the -- you know, to the whole aspect of playing a life human being. i mean, because that's got to be scary watching somebody play yourself. that girl has got a lot of flaws, i can do that. >> mike: you are in trouble, you know that. >> there is a lot of -- i checked that before we got on the air. with michael, it was just so easy and then it was so rewarding and we really do feel -- and this is -- whether people believe this or not, i really feel that giving is something that needs to be, you know, a happy thing. the bible says that god only likes a cheerful giver. if you don't like giving, well then, you know, don't do it. well, we really have gotten to where we think that that is kind

hough we are. and it starts little. you know, i certainly didn't like that first tithe check i sent in. but, you know, when it was explained to me, the process, it became so much easier and so much better. we really think that if you go into the movie, and you come out, you really ought to come out differentially. and we think that it might empower people to do a little bit more. you don't have to go out and adopt a 16-year-old. i mean, that's not what we intended to do either. >> mike: you can do something. >> exactly. >> cloins, i want to ask you this. you have seen your family now go through this incredible gift of yourselves. how has this impacted you as a person? what do you think in terms of your future and how -- watch your parents love somebody that they didn't have to love? they kind of have to love you and s.j. they don't have much choice. they didn't have to love michael but they did. what does that do for you? >> you know, we just did the good morning america. couple days ago.

and 3:30 in the morning and then we had another crew come in after. one of the questions they asked was can you imagine your life without michael? and it was a long day and i was so tired and i sat there and i just lost it in front of the whole camera crew. everyone sitting around me i couldn't recompose myself there aren't words to describe what life would be like if michael wasn't a part of this family. you can't go back and, you know, retrace your steps and he is so much a vital part of who this family is. and what we believe and the direction that we're going. and i just think that to go back and think that that he wouldn't be here, it's not even in the realm of thought. >> mike: leann, i think that you and sean and collins and s.j. have all given the country something to celebrate at christmas time and that's the gift of love. have you loved somebody unconditionally. and unexpectedly. you, as a person, are having a tremendous impact and your family on the rest of america in a powerful way. and i want to say thank you.

and thank you for opening yourself up to all of us and giving us the chance to know some lovely people. [cheers and applause] >> thank you very much. mike mile well, thank you. and i hope that people will be inspired to be more like the tuohy family, i really do. god bless you. >> thank you. there is a lot of michael michael ohers, look around there are some kids that very quickly could fall through the cracks. and there is a lot of michael ohers out there. hopefully we can keep that from happening. >> mike: let's hope there are a lot more sean and leigh anne tuohys. >> not a whole lot more. >> mike: thank you for coming. what a blessing. [cheers and applause] >> mike: technology enthusiasts are lining up al local apple stores as the company releases the long anticipated ipad this weekend. coming up, "fox & friends" anchor and in-house tech nerd clayton morse will be telling us

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morris recently stopped by to translate and put everything into simple terms that all of us can understand. first on the list, the hottest new video game. we all saw what gadgets and video games looked like back in the 1 0s sat back with a bag of chips on your chest and play video games like this. which is how i still play. nintendo wii play tennis from the couch. now microsoft's project natal we will see by christmas this year. doesn't look that crazy and sexy on the screen because everyone has an x box. what it does is attaches to current x box and gets you off the couch. so governor, stand up. >> mike: okay. >> imagine you walk into the room. the camera so ever there. you walk into the room and you walk in and it says good morning, governor. the machine does this? >> it's going to recognize your face and it's going to recognize your body and it's going to say hello, governor. would you like to play tennis today? >> mike: yes. i would love to play tennis today. >> grab your react, governor.

>> mike: do i need a physical one. >> your body becomes the react. you sit litani materially show your hands and the machine will recognize your hands and you can begin to play tennis. i got to demonstrate. i was one of the few lucky ones to get to demonstrate a beta version of it. >> mike: was it eerie? >> it was eerie because i was playing dodge ball and all these things are flying to my face and react to and kicking as this stuff is flying at you. it knows and recognizes your body. this is going to be one of the biggest hottest sell iser. >> mike: people can afford something that can recognize your body and face and play with you. >> technology is just going to be an attachment you will stick on current microsoft x box 360? mike pike we still have to take off our shoes at the airport and this game will recognize you. >> we don't have this technology at the airports. >> mike: what else is coming up? >> sit back down. everyone likes to sit around with their phone. this rolled out actually a few weeks ago. this right now is the fastest smart phone on the market. google's nexus 1 phone. running a really fast processor

in here. i go k. get on the internet in record time. i can get on facebook. i know you love to get on facebook. >> mike: sure. >> how many of you guys are on facebook. is he constantly tweeting. >> mike: one guy. >> jump on the internet in record time. beautiful screen. and everyone says is this the iphone killer? >> well, it's not really yet. but it's the fastest smart phone on the market it sets the bar even higher until june, or july, when the next iphone comes out and they are just six months trying to one up each other mick mike competition is big thing. announcement last week and you were one of the few people to see it the ipad. >> everyone knew this thing was coming. and all the press reports about it. so it's very difficult for a device to live up to all of this hype. but, i spent about 45 minutes playing with this thing. and i have to say it's an incredible device. and it absolutely is snappy, super fast, i'm able to browse the internet. watch movies, read books, and this is the real killer here are that all of how just bought an

amazon kindle for christmas got it for christmas. this is going to make that thing look like a 1920s device. >> mike: the readers that you have seen. >> sorry for the gaffes out there. >> mike: beta versions videotape versus vhs. >> new standard for ebook readers as well. i had revelation last night. >> mike: we have some in the audience 8 track tapes. >> those are still hip. sell them on eway and make a pretty penny and vinyl. i have ipod and laptop. >> i don't want to turn on the light to read with my kindle because there is no light for the kindle. i don't want to pick up my laptop and put it on my lap to read headlines what's going on in the day. here is a device that's this big. can i grab it like off the coffee table, bedside table and jump right on the internet and that's the answer, that's what apple hopes will be in between these two products. >> you will end up with

iphone, laptop and an ipad. you will need all three, of course. >> you know when i walk around, i have gadgets coming out of my ears, i have iphone and laptop and devices. they are hoping you won't need a kindle, this someone of those devices that you will be able to sit on your coffee table. you want to browse the internet while you are sitting on the couch. or having breakfast in the morning. prop it up there on the table while you are having your bowl of cereal. read the headlines, revolutionize the way we use the web. >> mike: what about classrooms? >> imagine sitting in college classrooms with a stylus and pens and taking notes and instantly translating it to text save it as a file and email it from the class instantly or doctor's offices. imagine a doctor walking around with this tab elizabeth. they tried doing it at doctor's offices years ago old pc's that didn't work. this will revolutionize the way we look at the medical field, too. >> clayton's price points on these things quickly, competitive, consumer, ordinary people can buy these things?

>> there were gasps in the room. it's hard for gadget geeks to get all gaspy. that didn't sound right. i said gaspy not gassy. >> mike: whole new thing. >> when steve jobs announced lowest end price point $499. analysts thought it was going to be $999. it this is about 30 or $40 more expensive than the kindle dx. supremely affordable for families if you don't want the 3 g version and just get on the internet. >> mike: graftd to have you here. we always looking forward to what you have to say on "fox & friends." thanks for being on our show today. are you fed up with the government taking a large chunk of your hard-earned paycheck? would you like to be the one who decides how many tax dollars you even pay to uncle sam? if your answer to those questions is yes, and i'm pretty sure it is, then you need to stick around for the next segment.

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you're watching fox news channel. >> mike: april 15th is just around the corner. while most americans are scrambling to file their tax returns, my next guest has a solution that would turn tax day into just another beautiful spring day. [ laughter ] you probably heard me talk about the fair tax before. and you know, i am a big proponent of it here to explain a little more of what it is and how it works national director of fair tax.org and americans for fair taxation ken hogue lynn. it's good to have you here. >> mike: it's not hard to get my motor rolling about the fair tax. why is this a better way of getting revenue for the government than what we have now. >> as you know perfectly well the income tax system is very good for people inside washington, d.c. and very bad for our national economy. it bedevils every single

taxpayer. the fair tax is simple, tans parent and fair. raises the same amount of revenue now raised under the income tax system but in a manner that doesn't damage your economy. >> mike: it's a sales tax. >> national consumption tax. you pay your tax at the cash register it shifts our federal tax system from taking taxes out of what makes the economy healthy, work, savings, and investment, to what comes out of the economy, consumption. the experts and there have been $22 million of research say oh, well, when you make the united states the only nation that doesn't tax manufacturing and labor, we're going to see somewhere between 10 and $15 trillion now offshore in private investment come rushing into our country. now, everyone in michigan and around the country who is searching for a job and wondering what happened to the american dream, this is the

shortest path to create jobs in the united states. it's not that good for the political class in washington, d.c. so, it really comes down to can we repair the country with a better tax system that will allow our economy to grow or is it more important that people inside the beltway in washington continue to profit off of a corrupted income tax system. >> mike: you have a brand new book called the fair tax solution financial justice for all americans. interesting title. financial justice. how does your book tell me that the fair tax is about justice and not just money and taxes? >> well, right now, the income tax system basically rewards those who hide their income and who get special breaks out of congress. congress is selling off two or three tax breaks a day. makes congressman very powerful, makes lobbyists very wealthy. billionaire dollars on lobbying every year just on the tax code.

but illegal immigrants, for example, don't pay federal taxes. when you go to a consumption tax, every illegal immigrant becomes a taxpayer as a consumer. all of the fat cat loopholes slam shut and wealth is taxed when you spend it. in essence, the more you spend, the higher tax you pay with a special, as you know, element of this that makes it far more progressive than the income tax system. we're going to eliminate the f.i.c.a. tax, which is highly regressive and holds the poor down. we are going to have a much, much broader tax base, trillion and a half in the underground economy, governor, as you know becomes part of the tax base so all of us can spend a little bit less on our share of taxes. and very importantly, what you earn belongs to you first, right now, taxes are withheld from our paychecks. we get what's left over.

that's backwards. the fruits of our labor should be belong first to us, and then we should pay our taxes. and the fair tax allows you to take home everything that you earn. >> mike: you pay it when you buy something, not when you earn it, so you are not penalized for your productivity. i want to ask you just in rapid fire a couple of questions here. what happens to the irs? >> the irs goes away. >> what happens to capital gains tax that. >> goes away. >> what happens to individual tax. >> it goes away. >> mike: what happens to taxes on investment? >> eliminated. >> what happens to taxes on our savings? >> eliminated. >> mike: what happens to the inheir tans tax that. >> goes away. >> mike: what happens to our pocketbooks? >> they get much fatter and we permanently stimulate our economy by putting more money in people's pockets. >> mike: you know, ken, i was sold on it after i read some information on the fair tax book back in the campaign of 2008. i became a strong advocate. i still am. will continue to be. very quickly, there is a rally,

a tax rally coming up in april, and the fair taxers across america will be a part of that. >> fair taxers, flat taxers, reagan tax cutters, in his legacy are being led to washington, d.c., on something very unique, governor, it is the online tax revolt. online tax revolt.com. for everyone who is working too hard to travel to washington, they know in their heart that something has gone terribly wrong with our government. but they are raising their kids. they are putting food on the table. they are unemployed. it's just too much. you go to online tax revolt.com, you pick an "avatar," a graphic representation of yourself that then marches to washington, d.c. right now it's in the hundreds of thousands. and then those "avatars" join with an 80, 90, 100,000, 200,000 people who have traveled to washington. this is how we finally say to washington we want our government back. we want our country back.

>> mike: i'm going to be a part of it i hope that you will get a copy of the fair tax solution by ken hogueman. all the members of our audience will be getting a copy of the fair tax solution. [ applause ] >> mike: they are the heads of their companies, how much do they really know about how their businesses are run? hooters cbo kobe brooks featured on series "undercover boss" is joining us next. we'll be right back. now back to the sauce. add a little bit of seasoning, just a little bit of seasong. rachel.

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>> mike: reality television show giving the heads of major corporations a real dose of reality. >> the first girl that finishes her plate of beans will go home. you cannot use your hands. okay? so, go! come on, girl. who wants to go home? oh, look. okay, doggy. brianna, how are they, baby? they look tasty. who doesn't want to spend the rest of the afternoon with me? >> mike: the ceo of the restaurant chain hooters was one of several executives who disguised themselves as entry level workers to get an idea of how things really are deep in the trenches of their companies. we will see it unfold on the new show called "undercover boss." ladies and gentlemen please welcome kobe brooks.

[ applause ] >> the look on your face when the manager of one of those stores asking those ladies to put their face down in the beans didn't look like you were really happy about that? >> i was not happy at the time and i'm still not happy today. >> mike: that was not one of the company-owned stores it was a franchiseee? >> it was a franchise store, yes. >> mike: he didn't know you were the ceo? >> he had no idea. obviously i never did talk to him until after this segment was done and he brought all the people that i worked with back to the corporate office and i unveiled there as to what i was doing, ohio was. and at that point i was a little bit shocked. at that time at the store i wasn't able to tell him ohio was, but, you know, it was a franchise store. that's like me going into somebody's house and trying to discipline somebody's children. it was a difficult situation. do i control the brand world worldwide in 26 different companies. however on a day-to-day basis

it's a tenuous situation. had that individual been at one of my stores he never would have finished the shift. i guarantee you that. >> mike: you probably learn some things some revealing and surprising. what was the single most stunning thing you learned going on in your own company? >> you know, it's just that our company was based on fun back in 1983. that's just what we are all about. you know our employees still having just as much fun as 20 years ago. first job was washing dishes, my dad said you are going to start at the bottom. that's where i started. you know, it's just the same as it was. things have changed. times different 20 years later. at the end of the day, the hooter's concept is just the same. the vast majority of our employers really love what they do. >> mike: now, you started out entry level back when you were getting started with the store with your dad. what kind of jobs did you do when you were doing this show undercover boss? >> i never did work washing dishes. i bused tables, ran trash, worked with some promotions on

the street with some of the girls in the public. and i worked as management under some of the managers there. so i did pretty much every job except i never did wash a dish, but i did a lot of that 20 years ago. [ laughter ] >> mike: there are people that complain that hooters may be exploiting women, even degrading to women. have people said that to you? do d. any employees say that to you and how did you respond? >> employees said that we did hear from the public on the street some of the promotions we did. it's a stigma that we have had to live with for almost 27 years now. we know we don't exemployed women. we employ women. we are percentage wise the largest employer of women in the restaurant industry. and we have about 15,000 hooter girls that work for us. >> mike: frankly, guys wouldn't look too good in the outfit. >> i wasn't a hooter girl either that was another job i didn't do. you know, we empower women. we just sponsored the first international contest in rwanda.

we were asked them to put that on and to empower women and give them, every since the genocide. they are trying to build the women back up. i sent one of our executives cat who was a hooters girl and executive team members and went over there and spoke for seven days to elm borrow women in rwanda. we raise money for cancer charities and all of that. there are a lot of charities that hooters does that the public doesn't see. we are held to hire standard. we are comfortable with that we are made of teflon. it's what we do for a long time. >> would you let your daughters be hooters girls? >> i would. ill would. obviously not under that one manager. by the way, is he no longer with us. he has pursued other careers. >> mike: that's an an eloquent way of putting that. debating joining the ranks of the 10% unemployed. >> i would certainly let my daughters work at hooters. >> mike: one of the things you have responded to is nfl

cheerleaders are dressed with far less wardrobe than the people who work in your restaurant? >> there is a lot of sectors of society that wear a lot less clothes. >> mike: i'm on airlines with people almost every day who are wearing less. >> and do their jobs. and cheerleaders, swimsuit issues -- the "sports illustrated" swimsuit editions is our highest moving magazine that they produce every year. and, you know, we just, because of the name, it's our biggest asset but also our biggest liability. it's a very delicate ecosystem we have to work with. we are used to it. we are not for everybody. we wish we were. and we would like for everybody to come in. but hooters is not the devil demon that some people think we are. we are very much involved in the community. we raise a lot of money. we are very family oriented. >> mike: what did you feel like you gained from the experiences at undercover boss? what did you learn about your company that you wouldn't learn sitting in the corner office at the headquarter building? >> i took a little bit away from every job.

and being in the ivory tower. you can lose sight of what's important. just listening to people and getting to understand again everybody has problems. i don't care how much money you make, what position you have got, everybody has got problems in life. and, you know, from the different levels of what your job is. everybody just wants to be appreciated. everybody wants to be told they are doing a good job. hey, keep up the good work and room for advancement and moving upwards. i took a little bit away different from every job. we have got great people that work for us. you have to have a certain attitude to work for the hooters restaurants just because, you know, it takes that outgoing personality. because that's what everybody expects. >> mike: it's made we very aware the idea of undercover boss i'm looking every day to sey f. roger ailes is running the camera. i don't know. check it out. >> couldn't have gone in one of my stores they have made me immediately. >> mike: it's a pleasure. thanks for coming on today. good to visit with you. >> you bet.

[ applause ] >> mike: something tells me that we are in for something good. peter noon, you remember him from her man hermits.

>> mike: he was one of the original pop artist from the british invasion, he and herman's hermits burst on to the scene with i'm into something good back in the 1960s, his songs are still entertaining new generations. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome peter noon. thanks for being here. >> nice to be here. thank you. >> mike: i look back on wonderful pictures of your career. you were all of what, 15 when herman's hermits really broke.

>> when we first came to america, i was 16. that shot with ed sullivan and the one with dean martin i was 16. >> mike: 15 and 16 and touring the world. did you have to have a chaperone and somebody with you? >> a lot of the other guys and bands watched out for me like john lennon and keith richards. people from other bands would take care of me. >> mike: i have a hard time thinking of keith richards as babysitter. [ laughter ] >> he once came to a hotel room in new york and threatened me if he found out i was taking drugs. he would beat me up. true story. all those -- i think herman's hermits were much younger than the other bands. the beatles were our age when we finished making records about the age that they started. you know, we were 16, they were 22. >> mike: you had still a remarkable career. a whole string of big hits, mrs. brown, you have a lovely daughter. kind of a hush. >> a wonderful world.

henry the eighth i am and you are not. >> mike: i'm definitely not. by the way, the greatest hits of herman's hermits is available at peter noone.com i found out. >> that's great. i should get myself a copy of that. >> mike: you should get a copy. i have a copy. it's great. it's bringing back so many memories as i listen to the songs. your music was very clean and uplifting and it was fun. it was not heavy and heart breaking. it was -- encouraging. >> it was encouraging. and enthusiastic music. at the time we didn't have to pretent to be sort of the nice boys next door because we really were the only girls we knew what i call sisters. you know, so we made songs that were romantic, you know, and at the time it was the end of that period where people made songs with happy endings, you know, where people fell in love and got married and had children. that stuff. >> mike: one thing about it i think as people hear the song tonight they will fall in love all over again with peter noone

herman's hermits. i hope people will go to their computers and order this great greatest hits collections of herman's hermits we're going to do. >> i'm into something good ♪ ♪ woke up this morning feeling fine ♪ something special on my mind ♪ ♪ something tells me i'm something good ♪ she's the kind of girl whose not too shy ♪ and i can tell i'm her kind of guy ♪ she danced close to me like i hoped she would ♪ something tells me i'm into

something good ♪ we only danced for a minute or two ♪ but then she stuck close to me the whole night through ♪ can i be fallen in love ♪ she's everything i've been dreaming of ♪ she's everything i've been dreaming of ♪ i walked her home and she held my hand ♪ i knew it couldn't be just a one-night stand ♪ so i asked to see her next week, and she told me i could ♪ i asked to see her and she told me i could ♪ something tells me i'm into something good ♪ something tells me i'm into something ♪ something tells me i'm into something ♪ ahhh ♪ i walked her home and she held

my hand ♪ i knew it couldn't be just a one-night stand ♪ so i asked to see her next week and she told me i could ♪ i asked to see her and she told me i could ♪ somethin' tells me i'm into something good ♪ somethin' tells me i'm into ♪ somethin' tells me i'm into something good ♪ somethin' tells me i'm into something ♪ somethin' tells me i'm into something good ♪ somethin' tells me i'm into something ♪ somethin' tells me i'm into something good ♪ [cheers and applause] >> mike: thank you, peter noone it's peter noone.com. i hope you had half the fun we did getting to be a part of this wonderful song and this great

memory. hope you enjoyed tonight's show. thank you, god bless, from new york, mike huckabee saying good night, everybody. ♪ ♪ somethin' tells me i'm into something something natural gas is a cleaner burning fuel, yet a lot of natural gas has impurities like co2 in it. controlled freeze zone is a new technology... being developed by exxonmobil... to remove the co2 from the natural gas... so we can safely store it... where it won't get into the atmosphere. exxonmobil is spending more than 100 million dollars... to build a plant that will demonstrate this process. i'm very optimistic about it... because this technology could be used... to reduce greenhouse gas emissions significantly.

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